Machine-reamer



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HENRY JUNG, OF NORWOOD, OHIO.

IVIACHINE-EEAMER.

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Application filed. December 15, 1919.

T 0 all whom it may concewt:

Be it known that 1, Hanna: Jone, an alien German and a resident of Norwood, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ghio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in 'Machine-Reamers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machine-reamers and more especially to an improvement in the reamer for which United States Letters Patent No. 1,324,553 were granted me under date December 9, 1919, and its object is to materially simplify and cheapen the structure shown and described in the said patent, especially in connection with the means employed for expanding the cutters radially for variations in cuts or boring operations.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal elevation of the complete device embodying my invention herein ready for use; Fig. 2, an axial longitudinal section, taken on dotted line 2, 2, of Figs. '1 and 3, showing the cutter blades slightly extended; Fig. 3, a f0re-end elevation of Fig. 1; Fig. 4:, an axial section of the single-piece reamer head and shank featuring an important part of the invention, the same omitting all but the head and shank; Fig. 5, a fore-end view of Fig. 4:; and Fig. 6, a perspective view of one of the cutter-blades.

7 indicates the head and 8 the reduced extended-end or shank thereof, a cap-plate or disk 9 being removably-secured by means of countersunk screws 10 to the outer forc end of the said head (as best shown in Fig. 2). In Fig. 4 is best shown how the head and shank are preferably constructed integral or of one piece of metal to reduce labor on and looseness of the two parts or members of the device in its manufacture and use, respectively, as well as consequent reduced cost.

The said fore-end of the head 7 is provided with a circumferential series of longi tudinal open slots or seats 11, as best seen in Fig. 5, to accommodate the cutter-blades 12 that fit snugly but free to be adjusted radially, as well as longitudinally, in the head, to suit the desired boring or reaming to be done.

The cutter-blades 12 are each of the outline shown in Fig. 6, the same as in said former patent, and have a sloping inner edge 13 that tends toward the said fore- S peeification of Letters Patent.

Patented James, 1921.

Serial No. 344,866.

end of the head when they are placed in their slots or seats 11.

Each cutter-blade has a longitudinallyecting abutting headless screw 13 in the cap-plate 9 whereby it is held firmlyin its slot or sea 11 against moving out of circuinferential alinement with its fellow cutter-blades, the same as in the said former patent.

To adjust the cutter-blacks radially in their slots or seats 11, for providing for various diameters of openings to be reamed or bored, I provide an axial conical traveler or spreader ll, internally screw-threaded anc sloping downwardly toward the rear of the 11 ad 7 to contact with. the forwardlysloping inner edges 13 of the blades, as best shown in Fig. 2, and I further provide an screw shaft or arbor that engages the threaded bore of the said conical traveler 14 to propel or reciprocate the latter along the slotted interior of the fore-end of the head. The traveler 14 is kept from turning or rotating by means of a pin l5 that projects radially therefrom (Fig. 2) in the space or guide-way between any pair of cutter-blades, also as in said former patent, but the conical spreader of that patent is smooth-bored and has an outwardlythreaded forward-extension not found in the spreader herein, which greatly simplifies this spreader and reduces its cost, both clearly obvious.

The propelling screw-surface of the shaft or arbor 15has a flange 16 'that contacts with the inner face of the cap'plate 9 when the latter is secured in place; and an integral outward-extension 17 has a rotary bearing 18, in the center of the cap-plate. The extension 17 is tipped by a flat-faced projection 19 extending beyond the outer face of the cap-plate for the engagement of a wrench or pliers in turning the screw-shaft 15, which, in turn, advances the conical traveler or spreader 14: for extending the cutterblades diametrically or radially beyond the face of the head 7 or permits their retreat to suit the desired bore or degree of cut to be made in the reaming operations of the tool. On the outer face of the cap-plate, surrounding its central opening 18, I provide radial graduations 20 to guide the user when adjusting the conical'spreader in conshaft or arbor'lo i provide an axial pilotextension 21, conically tipped at 22, at fortyfive degrees,more or less, and which forms a thrust-bearing in contact with the lower or inner beveled end 23 or a pin 24: (Fig. 2) that is freely seated in a radial hole or guideway 25 made in the head 'Z to the rear oi the open slots or cutter seats 11 and has a capping or securing screw 26 that radial adjustment of the cutter-blades and to prevent any looseness, play or rattle of the several parts of the tool whereby it might become defective.

The beveled pin iaperniits the arbor 15 to tnrnbut not to move inwardly, whereby the flange 16 of said arbor is held in due contact with the inner face of the cap-plate and no force on the outer end 19 permitted to cause the spreader to move further inwardly to aii ect the relative extent to which the cutter-blades are disposed beyond the peripheral face of the reamer-head.

In a inachine reamer, a cutter-head having radial cutter-blade seat-ways, a shank, radially-mounted blades in said seat-ways, said blades having sloping inner edges, a removable cap-plate, a screw shaft or arbor having a hearing at its outer portion in the cap-plate and at its inner portion in a bearinghole within the head, an internally? threaded conical traveler or spreader n1ounted on the said shaft or arbor free to be reciprocated along and by the latter in contact with the sloped inner edges of said cutter-blades, a pin projecting from the face of said spreader between the inner edges of any pair or" the said cutter-blades to prevent rotation of the spreader, a longitudinallyacting detent-fiange on the arbor, an inner tapered-extension on the arbor a. radial pin in the head whose inner tapered end is adapted to thrustingly-engage the said ta pered extension of the arbor, and a screwstop for the said radial pin in the head.

HENRY JUNG. 

